GPU MODELS / GTX 1650
GTX 1650 cloud GPU pricing
2 listings across 2 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.015/GPU/hr at Salad. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.
WHAT IS THE GTX 1650
The 1650 is the floor: 4 GB, no tensor cores, 75 W with no external power connector. It shows up in budget catalogs for transcoding and light acceleration. For ML it is a teaching tool, not a compute resource.
TENSOR COMPUTE
~3 TFLOPS FP32; no tensor cores
WHAT IT IS GOOD AT
Video transcoding
NVENC at very low power.
Light desktop acceleration
The design target.
ML
Not a fit - 4 GB and no tensor cores.
WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE GTX 1650
LLM inference or training.
Anything past trivial CUDA experiments.
| Provider | Config | VRAM | Location | $/hr | $/GPU/hr | Source |
|---|
Salad | GTX 1650 × 1 | 4 GB | Global (distributed) | $0.015 | $0.015 | receipt |
Vast.ai | GTX 1650 × 1 | 4 GB | Oregon, US | $0.046 | $0.046 | receipt |
THE GTX 1650 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS
2 providers publish 2 GTX 1650 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.015 (Salad) to $0.05 (Vast.ai), a 3x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.05/GPU/hr. 1 rows were reported in stock by the provider at last observation; the rest are published catalog rates. All rates are on-demand - committed-use and reserved pricing is excluded.
GTX 1650 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS
Across every GTX 1650 row on the panel, the daily floor held flat at $0.015/GPU/hr over 11 days of tracking. Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.
GTX 1650 PROVIDER NOTES
Salad · 1 config · 1 regionSets the panel floor for this model.
from $0.015/hrVast.ai · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stock1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.046/hrBUYING GTX 1650: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS
At the current floor, one GTX 1650 running around the clock costs about $11 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.
GTX 1650 VS THE ALTERNATIVES
More memory, more bandwidth, same no-tensor floor. Worth the small premium wherever both appear.
The T4 is what a real budget inference card looks like: 16 GB, tensor cores, datacenter drivers, still cheap.
Compare live rates: GTX 1650 vs GTX 1660 SUPER · GTX 1650 vs T4
GTX 1650 PRICING FAQ
What is the cheapest GTX 1650 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published GTX 1650 rate on the panel is $0.015 per GPU-hour at Salad (GTX 1650 x 1, Global (distributed)). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a GTX 1650 cost per hour?
Across 2 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for GTX 1650 run from $0.01 to $0.05, with a median of $0.05. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent GTX 1650 GPUs?
2 providers publish 2 distinct GTX 1650 configurations on Compute Cafe. 1 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Are GTX 1650 prices going up or down?
Over the 11 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the GTX 1650 floor is holding flat: $0.015 to $0.015/GPU/hr (+0.0%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a GTX 1650 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.015/GPU/hr, a GTX 1650 running 24/7 costs about $11 per month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic on the cheapest published rate). Committed-use contracts can price lower; the panel tracks on-demand rates only.
Why is the GTX 1650 on a GPU pricing panel?
Because budget providers sell it. It is honest to show the floor - just do not rent it for machine learning.
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